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Junkyard Find: 1964 Ford Fairlane 500 4-Door Sedan

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The 1960 model year saw a trio of brand-new compact Detroit cars ( the Corvair , Valiant and Falcon ) appear to do battle with increasingly popular small imports. Sales were strong, and the Detroit Big Three plus the Kenosha One got busy preparing midsize cars to slide between the compacts and the full - sizers.

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3 AutoNation USA retail outlets obvious up to now this while

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Past the Albuquerque, Austin and Colorado Springs places, AutoNation USA has shops in Phoenix and Avondale, Ariz. Helping that struggle is AutoNation’s acquisition of car lender CIG Monetary that closed in October. The corporate offered 67,539 older cars within the first quarter of this while, ailing 15 p.c. ranks Refuse.

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2024 Hyundai Santa Fe – Heading in a New Direction

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(Full disclosure: Hyundai flew me to Albuquerque and put me up in nice hotels both there and in Santa Fe. No word on whether an off-road-focused model like this would make production. The company fed us as well.) If you think the new Santa Fe looks like a Land Rover Defender, take heart, I did too.

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Engineers Are Working on a Solar Microgrid to Outlast Lunar Nights

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Sandia National Laboratories , a research and development lab that specializes in building microgrids for military bases, is teaming up with NASA to design one that will work on the moon. There are, of course, some differences between designing a microgrid for a moon base and designing a similar setup used on Earth.

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DOE To Award $104.7M to Establish Research and Testing Facilities for Carbon Fiber Manufacturing, Advanced Batteries, and Net-Zero Energy Building Technology

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Specifically, the funding will go toward reducing the production cost of carbon fiber manufacturing, to help in reducing the weight of vehicles; improved efficiency and lower costs for car batteries; and net-zero energy building technologies. Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NM) will receive $4.2

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Study Claims EVs Will Not Save the Environment, All Cars Are Bad

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A recent study published in the Journal of Transport Geography has alleged that “car harm” cannot be undone by the world pivoting to all-electric vehicles.& Vision Zero likewise strives to see lower speed limits implemented everywhere and roads designed to cater to pedestrians and bicycles, rather than automobiles.&